Who Has The Power

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Who Has the Power?  This is one of a series of fictitious interviews or dialogues to help illustrate the ideas being  presented.

Dr. Giacomo P. Rappaccinni: There is an interesting interesting story about George Washington when he was appointed commanding general of the Continental Army that I think will help to illustrate the point.

Jon Vincent Deacon: Okay, I’m listening.  Dr. R.: Well, it is believed that the the biggest reason Washington is sel selected ected is that the Continental Congress feels that a Southern General leading a Northern Army in what had started as a Northern Insurrection in the streets of Boston and at Lexington Concord will help to unite the thirteen colonies. He had gained international celebrity status because of his actions during the French and Indian War. He was highly upset with the British because he had sought a commission as a British Regular. George had been a Colonel during the war, but was denied the commission and given a position as a major in the Virginia Militia. To Washington, this had been a major affront to him. However, when he reported for duty, he found not an army but a rabble. He found units mixed with whites and African Americans. He found that the individual units had elected their officers. George wanted a professional organization like the British Army with its strict discipline, professional respect, and officers appointed by a higher authority — most most of the British Army elite were members of nobility; very few were of anything seen as of a lesser quality of  people. He definitely did not want a casual mixing of races in his units. He immediately issues a flurry of commands, regulations, and directives demanding what he h e wants. JVD: So what happens? Dr. R.: George gets an immediate lesson lesson as to what an American American is and what real power is —  about half his army decides to leave him and form their own unit or just go home. George immediately rescinds all of his orders and decides to work with his army. Discipline is greatly improved and the Army becomes a highly efficient fighting machine with the arrival of Baron von Steuben when they are at Valley Forge and the Baron trains sergeants to train their units but I think that in the back of Washington’s mind there is always that lesson of the American Spirit and of what power really is. I think that they heavily influence him when he decides to decline becoming the first king of America and works so hard to encourage those at the Constitutional Convention to work out things. JVD: So what exactly would you say is power?

 

Dr. R.: It is a very interesting topic. I think that an individual’s answer to a question like that would be highly dependent on their environment, conditioning, and their beliefs. Someone from North Korea would definitely tell you that Kim’s power is very real while someone from Revolutionary America would tell you a completely different answer. I  believe that I will expound on what I believe would be the Revolutionary American’s idea. But first, I would like to back up a little. In the Ancient World, power was derived from fear of the unknown. Kings had been viewed as descendants of Gods. Priest had derived their power for being able to answer questions and monopolizing on education. JVD: What was was the the unknown? Dr. R.: At that time, it was a long grocery list. You had much that has been answered by science and exploration now. You didn’t know what lie beyond the horizon back then and there were a lot of things that happened which no one understood why such as night and day, why did stones sink but boats that weighed 100 times the weight of the stone float, why did people drown, what was at the bottom of the ocean, what were waves? All of this raised questions and fears. You have the more obscure which was question concerning things such as life and death. Religious and Secular Leaders derived their power from this and they backed each other. Becoming crowned king or head poobah at the temple was usually carried out with a lot of ‘magic’ and ceremon y to convey the power beyond this world giving their blessings on the individual assuming the post. People simply believed that they needed the guidance and protection offered by both. Myths, fables, legends and fairy tales were generated to promote the need for these individuals and their positions along with their power that they wielded. Another source of power is by what a person can do for you; such as Genghis Khan being able to lead his men to victory and booty and the same with Gaius Julius Caesar. Another source is what the priest had a monopoly on and that is knowledge of a subject. There are also the use of censorship throughout the ages to maintain power — in in fact, a Chinese Emperor ends all contact with the outside world to gain a tighter grip on his people as did Stalin and Hitler and Kim is doing now; the U.S. is doing it with a censorship of the media in Iraq and Afghanistan just as Leopold II of Belgium did in the Congo, instead you hear all about the humanitarian aid and progress we are making. People are conditioned to depend on these people and with the dependency, the people are giving the priest, generals, and kings more and more power which in turn creates a circular argument of becoming even more dependent on the elite to solve the problems. We are talking about thousands of years of human conditioning and husbandry. JVD: It is interesting interesting that in Afghanistan and Iraq that the story is that we are helping these people. I think that the same story existed for Vietnam, but I noticed that the Vietnamese like the Iraqis and Afghanis don’t seem to be so happy that we are there. Not at all like

the liberation of Europe during WWII. I wonder how closely related to Leopold II’s help and aid is ours?

 

Dr. R.: Censorship is a very serious serious thing. I a country such as ours there is absolutely no room for it. I can understand keeping military things a secret but there is absolutely no reason for a government which is staffed with representatives of the people to ever have the ability to keep things from the people. When they declare something a National Security Item that has nothing to do with battle plans, military equipment, code books, or troop movements, it is something that they are hiding from us for a reason which my best guess goes to serve their own interests and that of their true masters — borderline borderline treason. Censorship is also a serious crime to me because it is just an attempt to maintain power over the subjected, it robs a society of real possibilities, it hides from the public what they are really up to and hides their crimes like Leopold II, Stalin, and Hitler, it also keeps the public in the dark and easily ea sily manipulated, it also sets you up to be a victim. JVD: A Victim? Dr. R.: Yes, a victim. It is very simple. The less you know about the world and your environment, the more vulnerable you can become. One of the biggest vulnerabilities is that you have a limited source of information from which to make decisions. In other words, your choices you have are limited. I can use these limited choices to get you to choose what I want you to making you think that it was your choice when it had been mine all along. You are more willing to follow and believe things that you have opted for than something that I forced on you. Yet, in reality, because through censorship I can control the flow of knowledge and information, the choice had always been mine — I just made you think that you thought of it. There is an old saying: The best way to control someone is to make them think that they are in control —   — excellent excellent salespeople do it all the time. JVD: Interesting, sounds like a card trick trick I was taught when I was in sales — you you literally learned to lead a person to the answer you wanted by limiting their choices. Husbandry, could you go a little into detail about that? Dr. R.: Being challenged and overthrown was a constant problem. It was especially in the group group that was closest to the leader. They saw and recognized the reality and they were part of  the reality of it all. A leader, whether ordained by divine right or by popular vote has one major desire and that is to remain in power. They like their position in life and the perks that go with it, therefore, you will find in all nations that treason is one of the most serious crimes that are on the books with some of the most heinous of punishments meted out to the perpetrators as a lesson to any who may have thoughts of doing so. In any group of people, you are going to have those that question and challenge. Depending on the wisdom of the situation, these individuals were either assimilated into the hierarchy or eliminated. JVD: Eliminated?

 

Dr. R.: Sure, when you acquire a herd of wild sheep you need to domesticate them. So, you identify the more aggressive ones and kill and eat them first while allowing the more docile ones live to breed. This results in less chance of injury to you while shearing or milking. After so many generations of doing this, you will end up with a pretty tame herd. You just do the same with humans. You do this by executions or the other heinous treatments as mentioned earlier for treason. You can exile problems or encourage them to leave as was done with a lot of the early American Colonists. Think about it. You are living in England or France and you are leaving to seek wealth and fortune in a place that hardly anyone knows anything about —   — that that is a pretty assertive or aggressive person. Or encourage groups that cause problems with you maintaining your power, your position such as the Puritans who moved to the now Boston area, or the Catholics which you know that since Henry VIII had been on a rollercoaster ride of acceptance and persecution who moved to the Baltimore area, or William Penn and his Quakers who moved to Pennsylvania. It was so much easier to get them to leave than expend the energy trying to placate all these groups and the rest of the nation as well after a century of ambitious individuals like Elizabeth I and Cromwell stirring up a hornet’s nest in their  pursuit of control, risking your power and position because of all these potential challenges. You make sure that when you do execute or imprison, that you did it publicly as a message to other would be usurpers or problem causers or perceived trouble causers and you make sure that there is a massive smear campaign to discredit anything they might have said or thought even if none of it is real. JVD: Just as Justinian did with with Belisarius? Dr. R.: Exactly, Justinian kept thinking that Belisarius would chal challenge lenge him and Belisarius had amassed a lot of support and admirers through his highly successful military campaigns. However, Belisarius had always been a loyal servant to the Emperor, but Justinian wasn’t going to take any chances. Belisarius was accused of disloyalty, stripped of his position and property, and he was beggared. He spent the rest of his life literally begging because

of Justinian’s paranoia. When you do this enough, just as big industry has to the American worker —   — basically, basically, if you question, challenge, or speak up, you will lose your  job and in the past, well, as recently as the early 1900’s, lose your life, your house, and be blackballed which means that you were put on a list that was circulated to all other companies to identify you as a troublemaker and stop you from getting another job. Again, the result is a herd of docile sheep in the political spectrum as well as the business world. They want people with ideas but they want people with ideas that will serve the ones in the elite positions not the average people. JVD: Okay, nice background, but what is power? Dr. R.: Going by what most people have been conditioned to believe, it is the influence that you exert over others.

 

JVD: And the American American lesson that George Washington had learned? Dr. R.: America was, as I have said been habited by gutsy people, aggressive, assertive, independent people — that that is independent to the point that they liked to live their own lives but they were still pretty much dependent on others for survival. But these are people who had the guts and the desire to get away from established civilization which they knew and carve out a new existence in a wild, unknown place. JVD: The Native Americans seem to have created a pretty sophisticated existence full full of culture, knowledge —I really don’t see much of a difference in their social dynamics with most European Communities. They were a little behind in technology but as far as civilized, I think that they were pretty much on par. p ar. Dr. R.: That is very true, but to the average settler/colonist of the time, they didn’t understand that at the time. They just saw unknown savages. These people arrive and seem to be isolated from the influences of the European Monarchies. They develop their own institutions. Eventually, the monarchies make their existence felt with appointed governors and supporting troops. However, in the interim, these colonists have experienced a level of freedom rarely understood in the Old World. Yes, there are troops and government officials but you have a lot of freedom to do as you will; even if you have to move into the wilderness to enjoy that freedom. Colonists love this freedom and decided to break all ties with England when England decides that it is time to bring them into the fold with the rest of the nation. Like children wanting to move out from our  parent’s house, we say no, we are on o n our own and we like it this way. Power takes on a n entirely new definition:  It is th thee influence which you allow someone else to have over  you.   It is simple, if you don’t like what someone is doing, you s top letting them have the  you. power over you.

JVD: Isn’t that the same thing that the Romans did at Aventine Hill around 493 BCE?  Dr. R.:

Exactly, but I think of this as an American Thing, mainly because the history of  Aventine Hill was usually squashed and kept under wraps and this American Thing arises after over two thousand years of the human conditioning and husbandry. Even the Romans had forgotten their own history and sold out to the rise of an empire — by by the time of Julius Caesar; most of the story of Aventine Hill had been long forgotten.

JVD: Just as we have forgotten what our definition of power was back then through years of  conditioning and husbandry. Some people say that big business in collusion with the Bilderbergs is being run by the evil Rothschilds in a bid to rule the world. What can we do to reverse the trend and gain back the understanding of power that George Washington had been given a lesson in?

 

Dr. R.: Again, power no matter what type is derived from a dependency. When the person who has power over you has absolutely no dependency on you as an individual, there is much room for control and abuse. A greedy enough person in a powerful position who can perceive no dependency on those who he has power over will be inclined to think of  himself at the subjects’ of his power expense. We need to develop strong communities. We need to place our dependency on those who are dependent on us. These would be our friends, families, and neighbors. Only by putting your dependency on those who are dependent on you, will you be able to greatly reduce the abuses of the past and free ourselves enough to move forward in social evolution. We need to realize that we are all in this together. We need to look out for and help one another. As time passes, you will have the exact opposite effect. We will become more and more dependent on one another and less dependent on the Federal Government. Businesses would be exposed to a free market again and become dependent on the market, employees, and customers. Power will migrate back to the people as business and the government will become once again dependent on the people, which is the way it should be. If your representatives are unresponsive to you, they are no longer your representatives. The very instant that a representative chooses not to protect what you had hired him to protect, that is the very instant that they have ceased to be your representative and have decided to be your leader. People are being told what to accept and are not telling the representatives what they expect. This is not a republic. It is becoming more and more (with the conditioning of representatives through censorship and fear tactics and bosses bullying you at work to just accept it) a dictatorship. Take the power back. Learn from the Romans at Aventine Hill or the American Troops when Washington came storming in. They didn’t hurt anything. All they did was challenge those in charge to be far better leaders with superior results. They will never grow. Just like you, if you never question anything about you or face up to challenges, you will never grow. You will just stagnate just as our government and our businesses have. You will allow possibilities for abuses and corruption that is found in our businesses and government. When you sit back and do nothing, you are just as guilty, you allow the stagnation and problems to persist. You are the problem and you are the key at the same time. This is a government of, by, and for the people; start acting like it and wake your representatives up like those troops did for George Washington. Biggest thing to remember is that it is your life. IT IS YOUR LIFE! Your freedom and rights are only limited by those you allow to limit it. IT IS YOUR LIFE, live it. JVD: Thank You, Doctor Rappaccinni. Dr. R.: Thank You.

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